The recent TLS 1.3 protocol mandates Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Ciphers for bulk encryption. As web servers and browsers transition to using these ciphers, it's important to know what they are and how they work... Read more

Many users and organizations want the flexibility and convenience of identity federation and Single Sign-On (SSO) from the corporate network to access intranet, extranet, and cloud applications... Read more

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, Jason dives in to Mac Masquerade, which is a user-configured unique mac address to be shared by BIG-IPs for high availability purposes.
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K3523: Choosing a unique mac address for Mac... Read more

For some web applications, you need a separate network firewall policy for users from different geographic locations. Using the power of iRules and VIP-targeting-VIP solutions, you can dynamically select an AFM policy based on source IP geolocation. Read more

In this Lightboard Lesson, I reshot a Whiteboard Wednesday that John and I did together a while back on the basic nomenclature of F5 BIG-IP starting at the hardware and working up to the granddaddy of configuration objects: the virtual... Read more

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I continue last week’s DSC overview with an overview of the failover methods and the changes/enhancements introduced in the recently released version 13 of TMOS.
Check back tomorrow for a write up on the v13... Read more

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I cover the basics of F5’s high availability architecture called Device Services Clustering, or DSC for short.
Make sure you come back tomorrow for the written part of DSC that I’ll update below in this... Read more

We all want to protect our web applications from malicious traffic coming in from external sources, but we also want to protect against internal users as well. In a previous Lightboard Lesson, we talked about how FireEye blocks malicious traffic from entering your network. In this Lightboard Lesson video, John explains how FireEye and F5 work together to block malicious traffic from internal users as well... Read more

Most websites utilize https:// encryption to secure traffic to/from their webservers. This is a blessing and a curse...it's a blessing because the traffic is unreadable in its encrypted form. It's a curse because, well, the traffic is unreadable in its encrypted form... Read more

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, Jason covers a couple deployment options for routing traffic through an IPS tier while maintaining source IPs. The first option compresses the external and internal legs of the air gap solution onto a single... Read more

The BIG-IP is a complicated system, and you probably don't want to give every single user the rights to every single part of the system. That's where user roles come in. The BIG-IP is loaded with lots of different types of user... Read more

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I describe the Let's Encrypt automated certificate generation process and how to customize a hook script to automate the challenges and and certificate deployment.
What is Let's Encrypt?
Let’s... Read more

We received a Facebook question on Sunday asking about BIG-IP Pool Priority. The scenario is this: you have a pool with 9 pool members and three priority groups defined (three pool members per priority group) and minimum active members set to 2 Read more

Companies that are subject to security audits, such as PCI DSS, could benefit from a solution that takes sensitive information and moves it from their web servers to the enterprise edge or ingress point and thus reduces the exposure of live and regulated data on the internal IT network.
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HTTP/2 is the new version (developed in 2015) of the HTTP protocol. It comes with several key enhancements over the older HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 versions. Check out the video below to learn about the new HTTP/2 protocol, why you should... Read more

Many web applications are using encryption (TLS) for security, but security typically slows things down. Is it possible to implement a good TLS solution but still keep the speed you want? In this video, I dig into the tension... Read more